Pg… 24 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Robbery team that stole $1 million from Brink's in 1950 after elaborate rehearsals is seized on deadline by FBI
Pg… 30 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A look at the World's Week
Pg… 32 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Florida's fattest tourist fling: millions seek a place in the sun
Pg… 45 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A new farm bill tops congressional list of important measures
Pg… 53 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Liberia re–inaugurates Tubman president as Russians horn in
Pg… 59 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A munificent party–giver (Minnie Mangum) is arrested for embezzlement
Pg… 40 EDITORIAL: Truman, China, and history
Pg… 116 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: The living immortals of the silent screen, as picked by the movies' pioneers, are shown as they were and are
Pg… 76 ARTICLE: The Truman Memoirs, Volume II. In the first of five installments from "Years of Trial and Hope", Harry Truman tells why he sent George Marshall to China in 1946 and how the mission failed. With nine color portraits of Truman's top aides as they appear today.
Pg… 48 SEQUEL: In a true thriller, Berlin kidnap victims flee Red grip
Pg… 67 ART: Museum director's choice: a sunny, fleeting moment by Cassatt, picked by the head of Washington's Corcoran Gallery
Pg… 69 ANIMALS: Kennel Club recognizes, for first time in a decade, a new breed of dog: the rough and ready Rhodesian ridgeback
Pg… 109 SPORTS: U.S. puts best foot forward with two pretty Olympic skaters
Pg… 125 FASHION: Bare midriffs are back as spring buyers snap up new designs
Pg… 131 THEATER: Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker" blends hokum and wisdom into funniest fracas on Broadway
Pg… 138 SCIENCE: New X–ray device uses powder to take detailed photographs
Pg… 143 PARTY: Seattle bus riders get free rides, flowers and fruit as city–owned line popularizes 100 new buses
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of pictures: a Kansas paint dealer sculptures his home towners in cement
Pg… 146 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: no neck on deck
Life Magazine January 30, 1956 Henry Ford II at River Rouge
Pg… 10 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: “Go Ye and Preach the Gospel”?Five Devout Americans in Remote Ecuador Follow This Precept and are Killed Pg… 25 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week Pg… 32 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Biggest Stock Issue: Ford Goes on Sale Pg… 89 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Starred Queen, Storied Throne: Elizabeth Sits for New Portrait Pg… 101 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Fetes for Franklin Marks His 250th Birthday Pg… 20 EDITORIAL: Deterrence is Only One Front Pg… 62 ARTICLE: Fooling the ’48 Forecasters: In Part II of The Truman Memoirs He Recalls How He Rallied His Party and Won in His Own Right Pg… 67 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Truman on Campaigns: A Portfolio in Color of Historic U.S. Elections, Accompanied by His Own Lively Commentary Pg… 48 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Colorful 1956 Catalog: LIFE Lines Up and Describes the New Offerings of U.S. and Foreign Auto Makers Pg… 43 SPORTS: A Melbourne, Australia Milkman, Dave Stephens, 25, Gets in Shape for Olympic Distance Runs on Daily 12–Mile Route Pg… 57 RELIGION: “Mr. Melish, You are Out of Order”: Two Competing Rectors, One Discharged, Conduct Rival Services in a Brooklyn Church Pg… 93 MOVIES: Danny Kaye Undergoes a Comical Knighthood in His Latest and Most Expensive Comedy, “Court Jester” Pg… 107 THEATER: The Lunts’ Hocus–Pocus: In “The Great Sebastians” the Famous Pair Have the Time of Their Lives with Mental Magic Behind the Iron Curtain Pg… 117 PARTY: “Biggest Town Meeting” for Eisenhower Pg… 4 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors Pg… 120 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Snack Before a Long Snooze